# Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-120b-a12b-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 12
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Qwen3.5 397B leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests.

## Summary

- Qwen3.5 397B has the higher overall point estimate 55.45 to 49.51. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 66.6 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B and 79.9 for Qwen3.5 397B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is τ³-bench results in Agentic, with scores of 18.9% and 68.4%.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 128K |
| Overall Score | 49.51 | 55.45 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 19 | 62 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 44.2 (Estimated · #61/127)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 44.2 (Estimated · #60/127)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench Airline | 76.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 18.9% | 68.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| BrowseComp | 78% | 69% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 62.2% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 56.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 36.3% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 46.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 46.76% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 88.2% | 83.6% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.1% | 76.2% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SWE Multilingual | 67.7% | 69.3% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 51.8% | 50.9% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 73 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 74.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | 10.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 62 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 73.6 (#29/54)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BabyVision | 29.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 62.8% | 61.5% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| V* | 85.6% | 95.8% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MathVision | 78.2% | 88.6% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| CharXiv | 80.8% | 80.8% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 87.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| We-Math | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 86.3% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 67.1% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 97.2% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.3% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 47.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 67.5% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.7% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #73/184)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 53.2 (Estimated · #68/184)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 29.2% | 28.7% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.9% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 93.8 (#5/17)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 88.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.5 397B
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 66.6 (#72/146)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 79.9 (#57/146)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 70.9% | 76.5% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 81.7 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Apex Shortlist | 88.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 94.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

### Where is the biggest gap between Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B and Qwen3.5 397B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 66.6 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B and 79.9 for Qwen3.5 397B.

### How many benchmarks does Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5 397B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5 397B currently has 62 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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